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Look at the flanges and they can tell you two things for sure. The boat had a staggered wheel and Nordberg engines. The two flanges in the center are set up for a staggered wheel and only Nordberg had those teardrop shape cranks.

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That is an excellent picture of the Gennys wheel. I blew it up so that my 83 year old eyes could see better and it appears that it is what the "old timers" called a split wheel. Would that match the center flanges as Frank Prudent saw them ?? The mystery continues. Maybe "Tommy Towboater" would solve the mystery???

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I think that photo solves the issue. It's not a staggered wheel that she has, but a wheel heavily built with a set of two flanges in the middle of the shaft. And we know that she had Nordberg machinery.

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Mystery solved... now, why are they still packing it around? Too big for a yard ornament,
me thinks. I've got a steam thermometer from the St. Genny somewhere in my garage...
she was scrapped here in Paducah and the fellow who took her apart gave it to me. I never
did anything with it, no boat name, only "Lunkenheimer".